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News in Their Pockets provides the framework necessary for constructive, continuing debates over the promise and peril of digital news. It further exposes our underlying reasoning behind the adoption of the mobile phone as the all-in-one media of choice to stay socialized, entertained, and informed in the modern digital age.
List of contents
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 News Gone Mobile
- Chapter 2 Motivation, Perception, and Engagement
- Chapter 3 Motivations: Beyond Access
- Chapter 4 Consumption: Diverse and Rising
- Chapter 5 Engagement: The New Dimension
- Chapter 6 Perceptions: The Credibility Factor
- Chapter 7 Who Learns from Mobile News?
- Chapter 8 Modeling with Mediation Analysis
- Chapter 9 Conclusions
- Appendices
- References
- List of Subjects
About the author
Ran Wei is Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mass Communications at the University of South Carolina, USA.
Ven-hwei Lo is Visiting Professor of Journalism in the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University and Editor of Communication and Society, a leading Chinese communication journal.
Summary
News in Their Pockets provides the framework necessary for constructive, continuing debates over the promise and peril of digital news. It further exposes our underlying reasoning behind the adoption of the mobile phone as the all-in-one media of choice to stay socialized, entertained, and informed in the modern digital age.
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With smooth, tasteful, and exuberant writing, News in Their Pockets represents a timely and much-needed outlook over the convergence of news and the mobile revolution in Asia. Readers will hone their understanding about the motivations, perceptions, uses, and democratic effects of the ever-evolving world of news gone mobile.
